The Task of ….Medical Missions Commission Conference 2014

Jeff MailuOrthopedic Surgeon - CURE Hospital, Kijabe - Kenya

Executive Director - Medical Missions Africa (MeMA)

30th Dec 2014

ObjectivesWhat is the task of ….Medical Missions

Who is equal to the task ?

How can we perform the task?

Examples and experiences of people and organizations that are performing the tasks

Discussions in room

What Is The Task -----of Medical Missions?

WHO definition of health vs God’s definitionHealth is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-

being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

SHALOM!!!-peace,well being and prosperityGlobal Taskforce on Health in Mission-"Health in

Mission” could also be stated Shalom in Missio Dei"Health in Mission: Human health and wholeness in the

mission of God

5The Ministry of Healing & The Great CommissionMar 16:15-18 ‘‘ And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature……..And these signs shall follow them that believe….they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover’’

#1 Relieve physical suffering and wants

#2 Then you will find an open heart

#3 Sow the seeds of faith

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The Emerging Trends in the task…

The sad disappearance of the career medical missionary.Hundreds of mission hospitals are all crying for

medical personnelOnly 20 percent of doctors who have felt the call of

God to go as missionary doctors still have that interest when their training is completed1

The Trend in the task of Medical MissionsThe shortening of the medical missionary career to short term

trips.No desire for sacrifice is apparentShort-term service and short-term teams have killed long-term

service. How do you achieve social transformation?Of a hundred feeling the definite call of God to missions, only

12-20 complete training for this calling; only 2 actually go, and only 1 stays1,2.

TrendsThe closure of mission hospitals

Expenses, the lack of key medical staff, difficulties in running a mission hospital and sometimes the lack of vision from mission leadership.

Greater need for the service of mission hospitalsRevival hubs e.g. AIM, India and China experience Painted as a "sunset ministry“Personal peace and affluence have become dominant values of our

culture

“I need basic health care…

…who will reach me”

10Who Will Go for Our Generation?Acts 13:36

Low universal health coverage

82% of the poorest of the world's poor

84% of those with lowest quality of living

The main centers of Islam, Buddhism, & Hinduism

Who is equal to the task of Medical Missions ?

2 Cor 2:16

Answer

NONE OF US!!!!

EXCEPT (2 Cor 3:4-6) if …God Calls Us

God qualifies us

God enables us And he called ALL OF US – YOU CAN DO SOMETHING FOR GOD AND HIS KINGDOM,

WHEREVER YOU ARE , WITH WHATEVER YOU GOT

Conceptualization and Attitude are the scales in our eyes!!!

Who is Equal to the Task

Purpose

Motives

How can/do we perform the task of Medical

Missions Colossians 3:23

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4 Major Missiological Principles: Gen.12 The call to leave (Leave your country, your people and your father's

household)

The call to go (and go to the land I will show you)

The promise of God to bless (I will bless you)

Obedience to God’s call (So Abram left)

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Current & Practical Entry Fields

Health Policy, Economics, Advocacy and Governance

Public/Private/Mission Hospitals & Agencies Service delivery Administration and Management Volunteers e.g. UNV program, Mercy Corps, IOM

Public Health Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Nutrition Poverty Eradication ProgramsIntegrate Work and Witness

How can we ….?

Human Rights Vulnerable populations (Women, Children, LGBT,CSWs, IDUs HIV AIDS, OVC

Medical Education & Counselling

Social Actions

Missions Mobilization Mobilization and Mentorship (goers and senders) Life & Professional Skills Development

Integrate Work and Witness

The disposition of a medical missionary Agape

Excellence

As unto the Lord

Be faithful and ethical

Remember God demands fruit equal to our capacity, hard work and first place from us

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What Have we learnt? We know the task of Medical Missions

All Christians are called to respond to the task of missions in their different vocations and geographical locations – Christian health workers are not exempt

Medical missions offer one of the greatest and unique opportunity in world missions

It is God who enables and qualifies us, on our own we are not equal to the task

CONCEPTUALIZATION

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